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and alights on leaves or bushes, not on the ground like the Satyrince. 

 The male has a powerful odour which can be detected as it flies past. 

 The larva feeds on bamboo, like that of D, tullia^ Cramer. 



From two broods reared and a few specimens of this species that we 

 have caught, we find that the colour is much darker in the monsoon 

 than in the dry-season. 



The larva is much more like that of a moth than a butterfly, 

 and would have been passed over but for one feature which betrayed 

 it, namely, the last pair of prologs. They are erect, and not extended 

 beyond the body as they almost always are in the larvae of moths. 

 Fortunately this little feature excited suspicion, and the larva was 

 taken home and reared. It was cylindrical or slightly fusiform, 

 head large, anal segment furnished with two stout conical processes, 

 widely separated, but scarcely divergent ; colour of head greenish- 

 yellow, eyes black, body brown, with a broad pure white dorsal band 

 flanked with conspicuous black marks, and a yellow lateral mark on 

 segments six to eleven ; head and body clothed with long reddish or 

 brown hair. 



" The pupa is shaped not unlike that of Mycalesis mandata, Moore, 

 the head-case being produced into two long-conical adjoined processoSy 

 the thorax slightly convex and carinated dorsally, the wing-cases 

 evenly expanded, abdomen strongly curved dorsally ; surface finely 

 rugose ; colour semi-transparent yellowish like a clean white bone, 

 with the dorsal line and the veins of the wings marked in faint 

 flesh colour, loosely attached by the tail. 



The larva lives at first on the underside of a leaf, but afterwards it 

 often makes a seat for itself, like the larvae of Charaxes^ by joining 

 a couple of leaves together with silk. The larvse are gregarious in 

 their young days. The eggs are laid in parallel rows along the 

 midrib on the underside of the leaf in very shady places in numbers 

 from three to ten, probably more. 



Subfamily AcE^iN^. 

 23. Telchinia violce, Fabricius. 



Common everywhere, but most abundant on grassy hills from 

 November to March, The larva and pupa were described in our 

 former paper, p. 268, n. 9. We have only reared it on the wild 

 passion-flower (Modecca palmata)^ but it must feed on something else 



